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Great write-up, but I have a few questions 1) don't different plants need different amount of moisture in the soil? How do you account for that? 2) why does m
by pedalpete 13y ago
Great write-up, but I have a few questions
1) don't different plants need different amount of moisture in the soil? How do you account for that?
2) why does moistly check the moisture levels so frequently? Wouldn't hourly or even daily be more than enough? I assume partly you are checking regularly because the alarm shouldn't go off after you've done the watering, but what about checking regularly if the last check was 'dry', but not as regularly if the last check was 'wet'?
- hansc 13y agoThanks for the nice comment. To answer your question: 1) Yes, they do. But by measuring the moisture in the soil, you will get an alarm when a certain amount of water is extracted from the soil, being caused by heat, sun or a thirsty plant. After quite a bit of experimentation, we found a threshold value that works for most plants. Not cactuses ;) 2) Indeed we check more often than needed. But if the plant is getting dry, we want to briefly signal every five minutes and before we do that, we do a quick soil check.